Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] wait [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 2 | Twelve weeks later , the fourth wall was similarly treated , and it was then a case of waiting until the following spring , to see if any further scale build-up and weed growth would occur . |
| 3 | He thought he recognised in Creed qualities that he had himself : the ability to wait and to charge the act of waiting with the current of anticipation , to check and double-check , so that when the waiting was over everything would go like clockwork . |
| 4 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 5 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 6 | It 's just a question of waiting for the bleep . ’ |
| 7 | So it was a question of waiting till the right moment . |
| 8 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 9 | This was typical of the suety coverage of the War Before the War , that long period of waiting before the January 15 deadline . |
| 10 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 11 | Villagers have fallen into the role of waiting for the nurse to cure their sicknesses , the agricultural extension worker to apply the latest gardening technique and government officers to inform them on political developments . |
| 12 | The ferry is no comparison with waiting in the terminals it 's a nightmare . |
| 13 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 14 | This must be what shooting a film was like : the brightly lit scene , the ennui of waiting for the chief actors to appear tile brief moments of activity , the concentrated attention to detail . |
| 15 | Then it would be purely a matter of waiting for the assassin 's bullet to strike home , or a carefully planned accident to take place . |
| 16 | Amid calls from all interested parties for the reconvening of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia ( held inconclusively in August 1989 — see pp. 36848-49 ) , Ali Alatas , as Indonesian Foreign Minister one of the two co-chairs of the Paris conference , said that a solution should be found to the Cambodian problem without waiting for the SNC chairmanship issue to be resolved . |